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Thoughts On Decentralised Social Media

20 March 2023 richard social conscience, Social Media Deontology, social media living room, social networking

The web was decentralised for a long time. The internet and social networks were designed around different niches. We had niches for people that did

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The Immature Coming of Age of Social Media

15 March 2023 richard Social Media Deontology, social media living room, social networking

Around a decade and a half ago I grew tired of seeing blog headlines that said “The top ten blah blah”, “Three signs that …”

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Twitter, As a Joke

7 March 2023 richard social conscience, Social Media Deontology, social networking

Twitter went down and I didn’t notice, yet again. According to The Verge it has been down five times in five weeks. It goes down

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Twitter’s Not For Me

21 January 2023 richard social conscience, social media, Social Media Deontology, social networking, Swiss walks

Twitter has a new For You page inspired by TikTok’s For you page according to Quartz. Many years ago we had Seesmic, a video chat

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Frost fractals on a velux

A Short Twitter Detox

19 January 2023 richard social media, social networking, twitter

I took a short twitter detox for two days. For two days I didn’t look at tweets, replies and more. For two days if I

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Taking a Twitter Break

17 January 2023 richard social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room, social networking

For the first time since I took a Twitter break in 2007 I am taking another in 2023. The first time I took a twitter

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Limited Bandwidth and Twitter

7 December 2022 richard social conscience, Social Media Deontology, social networking

Let’s take a step back from today, and let’s remember the 2006 tech landscape. In 2006 we had Symbian phones, GPRS, text messages. We used

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MicroBlogging and I

6 December 2022 richard social media, social networking, twitter

Since 2006 I have thought of Twitter, Jaiku, Mastodon and Plurk as conversation channels, rather than microblogging. I go to these places and use them

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Taking a Break From Twitter

5 December 2022 richard social media, social networking, twitter

I have used Twitter almost every single day since I created my first account in 2006. During this time I have met a lot of

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Mastodon has Eight Million Accounts Today

3 December 2022 richard social media, social media living room, social networking

Mastodon has reached eight million accounts today. That’s close to the population of Switzerland and two million less than London. Mastodon is growing because it

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